Online ordering site for a hand-cut halal butcher in Mount Roskill — order ahead and your cuts are ready for pickup within the hour.
Outcome — customers order from their phone; the counter queue got shorter, the order book got longer.
Field guide № 02 — Shops, cafés & restaurants
A website your customers can order from — and you can run yourself.
Marketplace apps take a third of every order. DIY site builders stall the moment you need something real. And the last developer disappeared after launch. We build fast sites and ordering for independent shops, hand you the counter controls, and stay on the end of a phone.
For butchers, bakers, restaurants, cafés, and specialist retailers across Aotearoa — from single counters to multi-location operations.
§ 01 — What we build
From shop window
to back room.
Everything an independent shop needs online, built once, built properly, and handed over so you can run it without a developer on call.
Sites that get found
Fast, local-SEO-tuned pages that put you on the map when someone nearby searches for what you sell — and load before they lose patience.
Order-ahead & click-and-collect
Customers order from their phone, you get the order in the back room, and their goods are ready when they walk in. No marketplace commission.
Menus & content you update yourself
Prices, hours, specials — changed by whoever is behind the counter, not by emailing a developer and waiting a week.
Back-office tools
Admin apps for orders, stock, and customers when the business outgrows a notebook by the till — including Storedash, our Android app that puts the whole back office on your phone.
The back office comes documented, not just handed over — read the admin manual. Every screen in plain language, including what each setting really does and what cannot be undone. It is the same text your staff get behind the ? button on their own screens.
And it fits in your pocket: Storedash, our Android companion app, buzzes your phone the moment an order lands, prints it at the counter, and keeps stock, hours, and takings a tap away — get it on Google Play.
§ 02 — Work in this field
Shops you can
order from today.
Alongside these, we've built a Turkish bakery's site and a back-office admin app for shop owners — same bed, same care.
istanbulhalalmeats.co.nz ↗
Website for a Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant with two Auckland locations, built to get hungry visitors from search to a table or an order, fast.
Outcome — one site serving two locations, from search result to seated table in a few taps.
§ 03 — Packages
Priced like a job,
not a mystery.
Two builds with a floor price you can see before you email us, and one monthly figure that is fixed rather than a starting point. Every build ends with a handover session, so the day-to-day is yours to run.
The Shopfront
From $3,500 NZD
Indicative floor — final quote after scoping. No GST: Salix Limited is not GST-registered.
- Up to five pages, designed for your shop
- Local SEO & Google Business wiring
- Content you can edit yourself
- Domain in your name; hosting and updates handled
- Live in about three weeks
The Counter
From $7,500 NZD
Indicative floor — final quote after scoping. No GST: Salix Limited is not GST-registered.
- Everything in The Shopfront
- Order-ahead, click-and-collect, or full e-commerce
- Payments, order notifications, receipts
- Menu & product management from the till
- Staff handover session included
The Keeper
$95 NZD/mo
Platform & security — required for as long as the site is hosted with us. Care retainer from $250/mo on top, optional. No GST: Salix Limited is not GST-registered.
- Hosting, nightly off-site backups, certificate renewals
- Security patching and dependency updates
- Payment keys held and rotated properly
- Care retainer from $250/mo: small changes, seasonal updates
- A real person on email, not a ticket queue
Not ready for a build, or you have a website and what you actually need is something to put in the window this month? We make those too — flyers, print & social video from $280, finished in days, and the files are yours. It is the small end of the same trade, and it is a reasonable place to start with us.
§ 04 — Common questions
Asked at the
counter.
What exactly do I own, and what do you own?
Your domain is registered in your name. Your content, your products, your photos and your customer and order data are yours, and you can take an export of them whenever you ask. The site itself runs on the Salix shop platform — the same engine behind the other shops on this page — and we host it, patch it and keep it running. That is the trade that makes a $3,500 build possible instead of a $15,000 one: you are sharing the cost of an engine that already works, rather than paying to have one written from scratch. What we will not tell you is that another developer could take the platform over tomorrow, because they could not. If you ever leave, you keep the domain, the content and a full data export, and we will help you move — but you would be rebuilding the shopfront somewhere else, not carrying ours away. If owning the code outright matters more to you than the price, say so at the quote stage and we will price that build honestly instead.
What are the ongoing costs?
Two things. Your domain renewal, which you pay directly to the registrar. And $95 a month to us for platform and security — the servers, the nightly off-site backup, the security patching and the certificate renewals — for as long as the site is hosted with us. That one is not optional; it is what keeps a live shop live, and a site nobody is patching is a site waiting to be defaced. The care retainer, from $250 a month, is the optional part on top: small changes, seasonal updates and a person on email rather than a queue. Both numbers go in the quote in writing. Nothing is metered or usage-billed, so the monthly figure does not move when you have a good month.
Can you move us off Wix, Squarespace, or an old WordPress site?
Yes, and we do it without losing your Google ranking — existing pages get properly redirected, and your content comes across cleanly. This is one of the most common jobs we do.
How long does it take?
A Shopfront build is usually live in about three weeks from when we have your content. Ordering builds take longer — typically five to seven weeks — because we test the order flow with your actual counter workflow before launch.
Do you integrate with delivery platforms?
We can, but we will usually first show you what direct ordering saves you. Marketplace commissions of 30% often fund the entire build within months. Where a platform still makes sense, we wire it in.
§ 05 — Contact
Tell us about
your shop.
We read every enquiry ourselves and reply within two working days. Quick chats, long briefs, half-formed ideas — all welcome.
Send a short note about what you sell, where you are, and what's not working with your current setup — even if the answer is 'we don't have one yet'. We'll reply with a few questions and a straight answer on fit and price.
Email